minstrel: Beowulf, was Gulf Wars bardic -- period performances

[L Joseph]

--- Heather Rose Jones <hrjones at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
wrote:
> I disagree that it's a limited repertoire -- you can
> extend it pretty 
> much indefinitely given the right performer.  I've
> seen a guy perform 
> excerpts from Beowulf in the original language, and
> completely 
> enthrall an average, generic bardic-circle crowd. 
> He happened to be 
> very good at interpretation with voice and gesture
> -- for moments at 
> a time, you lost track of the fact that you couldn't
> actually 
> understand the words.

Check this out: http://www.bagbybeowulf.com/

I moved west before I got a chance to see this, but I
hear it was amazing!

Jehanne de Wodeford 

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --Frank Zappa

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